PA0O ham radio

This week I am testing a Flex-1500  SDR   the smallest SDR from Flexradio My first experience with SDR. I am very impressed!  This small  modem type box is a complete transceiver It has superb receiving.   PAN is an extra dimension to radio. It has incredible small filtering a square shaped 25Hz filter  no ringing!    POWER SDR  gives super radio-front control   offering possibilities not seen before  I need some time to get used controlling everything by mouse.  There are special control wheels too. On the other hand the conventional radio's like my K3 is also constant connected and controlled  by a PC.  Definite this is the future of radio.  Then I saw the  new power fets  144MHz 3w drive 1250W RF out! woow  50V 30amps A simple small PCB 7x14cm on a cooling block 50V Power thats it! That's the end of the  PA tubes too... the  MRFE6VP61K25H...

LOTW  confirms   of this  excellent DX-pedition  with good ears and operating  the low bands sorry I have missed 160.  Low band propagation was very poor but still some EU's managed it into the 160m log. Also TX3T Tahiti could be worked on some  10 12 15 30 Details PA0O TX7M 2011-10-24 16:53:14 15M CW 21.03267 MARQUESAS ISLAND Details PA0O TX7M 2011-10-23 08:51:19 30M CW 10.10994 MARQUESAS ISLAND Details PA0O TX7M 2011-10-22 17:52:42 15M SSB 21.30670 MARQUESAS ISLAND Details PA0O TX7M 2011-10-22 17:42:10 12M CW 24.90430 MARQUESAS ISLAND Details PA0O TX7M 2011-10-22 17:03:18 10M CW 28.03863 MARQUESAS ISLAND Details PA0O TX7M 2011-10-22 07:41:40 17M SSB 18.16001 MARQUESAS ISLAND Details PA0O TX7M 2011-10-22 07:32:23 20M CW 14.0...

Had a strange problem with N1MM  at the start of this contest. The  incremental #  was out of control.. It incremented double.  The auto-serial number started at 5 not 1  and in 10 QSO  it was already at  50 . I could not find any fault in N1MM  configuring. But my Notepad was also running N1MM  in general logging. Had to switch N1MM off then al was normal again.  n=n+1 every QSO.. But the first 10-20 contacts will be marked as invalid by the contest robot.. Strange, N1MM normal did report that the contest types do not match in multi user network mode. But  have not seen this behaviour before.   28 was again wide open to VK1 2 3 4 5 6 7   even 200mW copied by VK7AB again. But no DX worked or heard in the contest !

 2011-11-05 06:58   PA0O   28.126024   -23   0   JO33hg   5   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2011-11-05 07:02   PA0O   28.126023   -16   0   JO33hg   1   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2011-11-05 07:14   PA0O   28.126023   -23   0   JO33hg   0.5   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2011-11-05 07:26   PA0O   28.126022   -29   0   JO33hg   0.2   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2011-11-05 07:38   PA0O   28.126022   -28   0   JO33hg   0.2   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905 ...

7Q7GM with K8EJ     1827.5     operated by GM0GAV Gavin  and GM3YTS good signals KH2/N2NL 3506 kHz earlier evening

total Q 273    including 20 and 15 some  40 80 1 W on 160m 28MHz  super propagation   KL7 KH7 via longpath, AH0 ZL VK etc etc WAZ  28MHz    completed  Sunday afternoon with zone 2 VE2IM KL7RA zone1  giant pileup hard to break,   good signal 59 over the pole.  Some other KL7 heard  and  again KH7 long path S9  QTF 160 Could complete  zone  1 2 19 40  39  5R8A  38 V51A  Sunday   WAZ 21Mhz and 14MHz  could also been possible in this weekend but 28MHz kept me busy enough already. Some 80m W big guns could be worked with Lowpower Sunday evening late.  W3LPL KC1XX W2PV  zone 5 was the only worked on 6 bands. My setup  K3 ACOM1000 3ele Steppir seems to be marginal in the CQWWSSB  world where every extra  kW does help. Calling CQ did not rase pileups. The bands overloaded...

YC0LOW/1  Jo good signal from his /1 location  preparing CQWW Test this whole weekend... very promising Had high QRN level as always  but  he gave 599! TL0CW  2nd QSO   I had him on 80/160 but uncertain due to tuning and QSB  this afternoon & evening WSPR 28 screen filled with W including W6 and 7 's !  This morning as usual VK1-6 .. Propagation seems to be recovered. Yesterday heard South Cook on 28  but too weak and simplex. My old IC2E 2m FM porto did stop working after 30 years. I bought that one in 1980....  No receive no tx just noise seems PLL part. This is an analoge technic design very low standby power just few miliamps... it had 2W